I think they’re (ineptly) playing off the phrase “An original short” and throwing death in there to signify the ressurrection.
H.
So, just got done with an internal job interview at work, having thrown my name into the mix for an open position in another department. Not that I don’t love my current job, it’s just that after five years in the same department, a lateral switch with more upward mobility potential is appealing. Current boss is supportive, all is good.
Potentially-new position is a direct supervisory position as well. And the two subordinates that I’d be supervising… have also both applied for the position. Awkward…
Sort of a win-win, really - if I get the position, it’s a big step up career-wise. If I don’t, hey, I like my current job and have no problem continuing here until something else opens up or they upgrade the position, etc.
But man, the whole process always leaves me with the heebie-jeebies.
Eight months ago, I had a job that was killing me, a girlfriend that was making me suicidal, a house I hated, a main street thirty feet from my front window, and an ever-escalating substance abuse problem.
With getting my official hire offer from work today, I have now fixed all of that with a great house in a nice, quiet neighborhood, a job paying 35% more that I like, no girlfriend (but working on a nice Jewish girl), a stable mental state, and steadily decreasing the booze intake. Plus I knocked six strokes off my golf game in a few weeks.
Me getting happy.
H.
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Programming interviews are always a pain, I’ve been asked to actually write code over the phone once! Other times it’s inane riddles or full-on tests (with time limits).
My very first interview ever a guy asked me to walk him through tying his shoes. He said he hired me because unlike everyone else who jumped straight to the laces, my first question was: Do you have your shoes on?
I can’t imaging trying to write code over the phone.
I replaced tube and tire on my bicycle all by myself!
I’m a big boy now!
I’m also impressed by those who can really make big positive changes in their life because I know how hard it is to accomplish. My hats off to you sir.
I’ve done string reverse and some bitwise questions over the phone but anything more would probably be pretty painful.
JoshV
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Yeah, it wasn’t something major, I forget the exact question, but it was tree related. I’d guess the majority of the programming I’d be doing for the company would not be orally done, so is that really a good gauge of their skills?
I’d say that, if anything, it’s a good indication of what sort of management you’d be walking into. Be wary. :)
. . . and I taught myself VBScript today. Again. For the fourth time in my life. Did I mention I don’t like coding?
H.
Glad to hear it! I was wondering who I was gonna hit up for rides when/if I go visit my D.C. peeps.
Is it M or A?
I thought about getting a fancy schmancy car, but I would also have to get a fancy schmancy house that has a garage so that I could put the car in it.
After much thought, I have decided to put the house before the cart. (yes, i’ve been waiting a whole paragraph to say that)
It is not. I’m a theory guy, and trying to track down the friggin’ syntax and methods and shit is what drives me insane. Five minutes to cook up the logic behind what I’m trying to do, five hours to figure out how to put it in the right format.
H.
From the dealer out here in Sterling?
Want to drive me to dinner in your new car? I’ll buy :)
I’ve gotta ask: why? I don’t know how to say this without sounding like an asshole, but it’s a cheap Maserati. Why not get a good someothercar?
Everyone remember the Porsche 924? Exactly.
H.
I went to Dave Williams’ signing for Machinery of Light.
Well, I tried to, but between running late to hand off my son and the reading’s logistics being screwed up, I met Dave and a bunch of other wonderful people at a bar instead. It was a great time, wish I’d gotten there earlier or stayed longer. I, of course, left my copies of his books at home and thus couldn’t get anything signed :( Nor did I get a pic, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
Dave’s a great guy, fun to speak with. Also found out that he runs a Google Alert for mentions of his books or (possibly) himself, so here goes:
Dave Williams Machinery of Light Mirrored Heavens Burning Sky
Now that I know what he’s looking for, I’ll take a page from Cato and end all my posts with Dave Williams references.
Heh. A friend and editor of a (somewhat) competing magazine just bought a 1974 Porsche 924 (and a 1981 for parts) it’s lovely to tease him with his new VW.
Just took my first flight in an Airbus 380 (Airbus’s new double-decker airliner). Don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but those things just feel big when you’re riding them. When taking off, when flying through turbulence. Also, they’re pretty roomy, even (especially) in economy class. Thought they’d be really crammed. But through out the flight, all I could thing of was “this must have been what it was like to take a ride on the Titanic” – which kind of destroyed the experience for me
